Former Much Music VJ seeking NDP nomination in Toronto-Centre

Jennifer Hollett, recently a CBC reporter but seen above in her Much Music VJ days chatting with then-premiers Bernard Lord and Gary Doer, has put the word out on social media that she’ll launch her campaign for the NDP’s Toronto-Centre nomination next week with an event at Toronto’s Paint Box Bistro in Regent Park.

With longtime Toronto-Centre MPP George Smitherman telling iPolitics last month that he’s considering a run for the Liberals in the byelection, the race to replace Bob Rae is starting to heat up.

But it’s still quiet on the Conservative front.

In 2011 the Conservatives ran a pastor named Kevin Moore who also serves as the executive director of a non-profit organization called the City Hope Education Centre.

iPolitics has been unable to reach Moore or Dave Gentili — the president of the Conservatives’ Toronto-Centre electoral district association.

A biography posted on Hollett’s website emphasizes her “commitment to social justice.” The Harvard public administration grad also has ‘app developer’ on her resume. She co-founded the SuperPACapp — a mobile tool for identifying the money behind U.S. political ads during the 2012 presidential campaign.